Diagnostic Medical Physicist - Radiology Administration

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Hartford Hospital is one of the largest and most respected teaching hospitals New England. We are a Level 1 Trauma Center that provides cutting edge treatment to its patients. This is made possible by being home to the largest robotic surgery center in the Northeast and the Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESI), one of the most-advanced medical simulation training centers in the world. When hospitals cannot provide the advanced care, expertise and new treatment options their patients require, they turn to us.
Hartford HealthCare has a unique opportunity for a Diagnostic Medical Physicist (DMP) to join our growing Medical Physics and the Radiation Safety team. The DMP will support the HHC imaging medical physics program. In addition, the DMP will provide education and training and will support the imaging quality improvement projects.

Summary

• Provide physics services as required by the ACR accreditation, the Joint Commission and state regulations for Mammography, US equipment, X-ray imaging physics services, including CR, DR, fluoroscopic/angiographic, and CT, CBCT/OBI imagers, CT and R/F simulators, Nuclear Medicine PET, SPECT, planar, and cardiac modalities.
• Provide radiation protection technical resources for each HHC campus radiation protection program (to include low dose protocols in Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT, CT, Interventional Fluoroscopy and general Fluoroscopy), and MR Safety
• Promote radiation safety program compliance with applicable HHC policies and procedures, the HHC ALARA program, and all local, state, and federal regulations
• Represent HHC at various local, state and federal meetings, committees, and task groups to promote existing and new radiation safety programs and/or policies.
• Calculate radiation shielding designs, fetal and skin dose consults.
• Providing radiation safety and dosimetry support for Y-90 and radioiodine therapies.
• Providing physics education to the radiology residents and radiation safety training to clinical staff.

Qualifications:

• Masters in Health Physics or Medical Physics
• Bachelor's in Radiation Science only acceptable with 10 years as medical RSO or related medical regulatory radiation program oversight experience.
• Five (5) years professional experience health physics, medical health physics or medical physics in a medical safety program
• One of the following Board Certifications:
  • ABHP (American Board of Health Physics)
  • ABNMS (American Board of science in Nuclear Medicine)
  • ABMP (American Board of Medical Physicist)
  • ABR (American Board of Radiology)

  With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment .

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